Nike lekythos by the Bowdoin Painter 480-470 BCE
"[On winged Gods :] Hermes is a God and has wings and flies, and so do many other Gods. First of all, Nike (Victory) flies with golden wings, Eros (Love) is undoubtedly winged too, and Iris (Messenger) is compared by Homer to a timorous dove."
-Aristophanes, Birds 574 ff (trans. O'Neill) (Greek comedy C5th to 4th B.C.)
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| An Attic Red-Figured Lekythos, Attributed to the Bowdoin Painter, 480-470 B.C. with disk foot and convex handle, the body decorated with Nike in flight holding a phiale and pouring a libation over a burning altar, black-figured linked palmettes on the shoulder, tongues below the neck, meander below the scene, two echeloned rows of dots above; the details in added red wash. Height 9 1/4 in. 23.5 cm. |
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